Egg-carrier.



F. KRONENBERGER.

EGG CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9, I913. RENEWED FEB. 1.1911.

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EGG-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1917.

Application filed August 9, 1913, Serial No. 783,865. Renewed February 1, 1917. Serial No. 146,002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND KRoNEN- BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Egg-Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a carrier for shipping various articles, more particularly substances of a perishable or breakable nature, such as eggs and fruits, although the invention may be used in the transportation of any other substance liable to become broken or injured in transit.

In other applications filed by me on even date herewith I have disclosed various constructions wherein carriers have been made separate from cell cases, and also integral with stays forming in effect cell cases; whereby breakable substances may be shipped in packing cases or by parcel post in small cartons.

In a preferred form, the article carrier of the present invention is especially adapted for the shipment by parcel post of perishable products, such as eggs, from the producer to the consumer, and said carrier embodies a plurality of members assembled in interlocking relation' Each of said members is provided with pockets, and with notched stays, the stays of one member being interlocked with the stays of the other member to secure a parallel relation of the two members so that the pockets will register in order that the articles will be securely re-. tained in the registering pockets of the two members. These members may or may not be combined with top and bottom covers, but when the covers are used, they are provided with flanges adapted to be inserted and held in the folded material composing the stays of the interlocked members, whereby the members and the covers attached thereto may be deposited in a suitable carton so as to produce a strong and compact parcel post package.

The invention embodies, also, a series of article carriers each provided with slitted openings and combined with cell cases in such manner that the articles held under pressure will enter the cells of the cases so as to be retained in position by frictional contact with the slitted edges of the openings.

In the drawings,

Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sections illustrating a preferred form of the article carrier.

Figs. 3 and t are plan views of the blanks from which the article carrier of Figs. 1 and 2 are made.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a plurality of carriers are employed for supporting each layer of objects. E F are the members composing the carrier, said members being composed of the blanks shown in Figs. 3 and a, which blanks are folded and assembled in parallel .relation so as to be interlocked together for supporting objects introduced into the openings thereof. The top member E is provided with an opening, the edges of which are slitted so as to form tongues e, and this top member is doubled or folded upon itself in the intervals between the openings 6 so as to produce stays e. The bottom member F is provided with openings, the edges of which are slitted to produce tongues f, and said bottom member F is provided with folded portions producing stays f. The members E F are characterized by an arrangement of stays c on member E at right angles to the corresponding stays f on member F, whereby the stays c f are at right angles to each other. These stays are slitted at a, Z), see Figs. 3 and 4, said slits being positioned at the points where the stays cross or intersect so that the stays on one member will interlock with the stays on the other member, and said slitted portions of the stays are fitted together so that the stays will interlock. Member E is reversed. or inverted to member F, and thus the notched stays c of member E will be presented to the correspondingly notched stays f of member F, so that the two stays will interlock for the purpose of retaining said members E F in parallel relation, and to bring the slitted openings 6 f of the respective members into register. The member E is composed of the blank shown in Fig. 3, said blank being slitted at c and slotted at a. The blank is scored or creased at a so that it can be folded to produce the stays, the slots a crossing certain score lines. Similarly, the member F is produced from the blank of Fig. 4, the same being slitted at f and slotted at I) and scored or creased at Z), the slots 6 crossing certain of the score lines so that the blank when folded will produce the doubled stays which are notched whereby the notched stays of one member will interlock with the notched stays of the other member. For the purpose of supporting and incasing said members E F, I employ incasing means in the form of a top cover G and a bottom cover H, the same having frictional engagement with the respective members. The top cover G is provided with depending flanges g which are inserted into the folded stays e of the top member, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2. 'In a similar way the bottom cover H is provided with upstanding flanges h, the latter being inserted into frictional contact with the folded stays f of the bottom member F, as shown more particularly in Fig. 1. It will be noted that the top cover G and bottom cover H are detachably connected to the folded stays of the upper and lower members E F, and furthermore that said top and bottom covers are in spaced relation to the members E F, thus leaving space between the respective covers and the respective members for the protruding top and bottom parts of the article to be placed in the openingsof the carrier.

When it is desired to use a carrier of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 within a carton so as to make up a package for shipment by parcel post, the operator assembles members E F for the slitted openings 0 7 thereof to register and for the flanges e of one member to interlock with the flanges of the other member. The articles are now thrust through the slitted openings 6 in the upper member and rest upon the slitted openings in the lower member, after which the top cover G and bottom cover H are positioned for the flanges thereof to enter the folded stays of the respective members, thereby incasing the members and the articles held in the slitted openings thereof. The entire package may now be placed within a suitable carton and the latter closed in an ordinary way so as to protect the carrier and its contents. The ob ects are securely held by the yieldable slitted edges of the openings in the top and bottom members so that no movement of the articles can take place, and thus breakage of, or injury to, the articles is precluded by the use of a carrier embodying this invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An article carrier embodying a plurality of'sheets each sheet being provided with slitted portions and with stays intermediate said -slitted portions, said sheets being assembled substantially parallel to each other and for the slitted portions of one sheet to register with the corresponding portions of the next sheet, the stays of said sheets being interlocked and retaining said sheets'in a connected condition.

2. An article carrier embodying a plurality of sheets eachprovided with rows of slitted portions and with stays which are formed by folding the sheet intermediate the slitted portions, the stays of one sheet being interlocked with the stays of the adjacent sheet, and the slitted portions being in register on the adjacent sheets.

3. An. article carrier embodying a plurality of sheets each provided with slitted portions adapted to be deflected from the plane of the sheet and produce a pocket, each sheet being foldable intermediate the slitted portions and producing a plurality of stays, the stays of the adjacent sheets projecting from the opposing faces thereof and said stays being inter-connected for retaining said sheets in such relation to each other that the slitted portions thereof are displaceable by contact with articles positioned intermediate the sheets.

4. An article carrier of the class described embodying a plurality of members provided with stays, the stays of one member crossing the stays of the other member and interlocked therewith, said members having slitted portions positioned intermediate said stays, said slitted portions being yieldable under the pressure of the articles introduced therein.

5. An article carrier embodying a plurality of sheets each folded at intervals and producing rows of stays, the stays of one sheet extending in one direction from the plane of the sheet and the stays of the adjacent sheet extending in an opposite direction to the first named stays, said sheets being positioned one above the other and the stays of one sheet being locked to the stays of the next sheet, said stays operating to retain the two sheets in a relatively spaced relation for receiving articles between the sheets and within the cells formed by the interlocked stays.

6. An article carrier embodying a plurality of sheets each folded upon itself to produce doubled stays, said sheets being positioned one above the other and with the stays of one sheet interlocked to the stays of the other sheet, said stays operating to relatively space the sheets for receiving articles between said sheets and in the cells formed by the interlocked stays, and in- I casing means provided with tongues having frictional contact with said stays.

7 An article carrier embodying a plurality of sheets each folded upon itself to produce doubled stays, said. sheets being positioned one above the other and with the stays of one sheet interlocked to the stays of the other sheet, said stays operating to relatively space the sheets for receiving articles between said sheets and in the cells In testimony whereof I have signed my formed by the interlocked stays, and top and name to this specification in the presence of bottom covers for said sheets, each cover two subscribing witnesses.

having tongues insei'tible into the doubled' FERDINAND KRONENBERGER. 5 stays and frictionally engaging therewith Witnesses:

for retaining the cover in engagement with M. C. RODRIGUEZ,

the sheet. H. I. BERNHARD.

v Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

